(Elisa Flasko) The ADO.NET Entity Framework is almost here! First introduced as ADO.NET vNext in 2006, the framework is now ready for prime time with the upcoming release of Visual Studio 2008 SP1. After a couple of unsuccessful attempts at similar products over the years, Microsoft released two tec

(Sacha Barber) I’m afraid to say that I am just one of those people that unless I am doing something, I am bored. So now that I finally feel I have learnt tha basics of WPF, it is time to turn my attention to other matters.

(Stephen Walther) In this tip, you learn how to create and use templates in the MVC framework that you can use to display database data. I show you how to create a new MVC Helper method named the RenderTemplate() method.

(Ged Mead) I never cease to be amazed at how many ways you can fool yourself into thinking that your code will do one thing, but in fact it does something completely different. Sometimes the subtlety of the error is so fine that you can spend ages trying to work out the source of the problem and, to

(Zach Smith) Up to this point, the files have not been accessed in any way; they havent been moved, parsed, or loaded into the database. The reason for this is that moving, parsing, or loading files into the database are all examples of tasks that are best handled by highly specialized processes. In

(Ravi Shankar) Restricting master data management to a single master data type, registry style or to analytical usage will curb its usefulness in solving difficult business problems.

(Jeff McWherter) A cross tabulation is a densely populated report or matrix (a rectangular table of elements or entries). Cross tabs resemble spread sheets, and if you are working with data that requires multiple cells that make up a grid consisting of rows and columns, a cross tab is the best tool

(Nikhil Kothari) Silverlight provides the ability to completely customize the look and feel of controls (including the intrinsic ones – often something one desires when working with HTML), while preserving their behavior, through a combination of styles, templates, visual states and transitions. For

(Jim Mischel) We now have all the pieces necessary to create a function that will sort an arbitrarily large file of strings. The input file can be in any text encoding that the .NET Framework supports, and we’ll be able to output in any encoding, as well. In addition, we can specify any supported

(Sacha Barber) I’m afraid to say that I am just one of those people that unless I am doing something, I am bored. So now that I finally feel I have learnt tha basics of WPF, it is time to turn my attention to other matters.